By Francis Monyango. Today is the 28th of January. Data Protection Day or Privacy Day. The day when we all commemorate the 1981 signing of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108 for the Protection of Individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal...

By Mildred Achoch. The British Institute of Eastern Africa held an event in October 2019 titled “Data Justice, an agenda worth pursuing in Kenya?” In “A Structural Model and Manifesto for Data Justice for International Development” Richard Heeks cites a paper that...

By Tevin Mwenda Gitonga. Access to information is a crucial pillar in any democratic society. The citizens of a country deserve to know what is happening in their country and public officials have the duty to inform their citizens on any important matters affecting...

By Cecilia Maundu The month is August, the year is 2018, am in Nepal for the feminist tech exchange (FTX) convening. My first time in Asia and I must say it was an amazing experience. The meeting was a four-day exchange with feminist trainers and facilitators working...

Dr. Wambui Wamunyu It has been nearly a year and a half since the Freedom of Information Act was signed into law. It is an important piece of legislation for what it does: it treats information as a public good, which may be defined as something that society is...

The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) in partnership with the Global Partners Digital (GPD), is undertaking a project to promote the Access to Information policy that was passed in 2016. The project seeks to use ICT to enhance policy impact by building knowledge and...

ABOUT KICTANet

The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder Think Tank for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation.